“Autodesk announced the availability of Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2016 for Mac® and Autodesk® AutoCAD LT® 2016 for Mac®. The latest release includes key enhancements to create a more “Mac-native” environment for users, including a specialized Mac interface and Mac-specific features. Users will also have full compatibility with the Windows…
Read MoreI will never forget many years ago flying into Portland International Airport and seeing the iconic and sometimes visually loud carpet. Over the past 20 some odd years flying into the airport I always felt fairly nostalgic when seeing it and actually looked at carpets in airports around…
Read MoreI moved back to Oregon a couple months ago and the one thing I have noticed is people pronouncing it wrong. It is not pronounced like “Ory Gone” I fired up AutoCAD to visually explain how to pronounce my home state Oregon. Just say with me:Hexagon, Octagon, Oregon
Read MoreJust a few minutes ago Autodesk’s own AutoCAD 360 was just shown on stage at the Apple event running on the new iPad Pro. Looks great on the new larger and higher resolution iPad Pro and described as “buttery.”
Read MoreRead more about the event being held September 8th, 2015.“I Love DWG” meetup in Prague Working with DWG files using third party libraries? Querying? Viewing? Editing?Wrestling with how to expand your solutions to mobile and the web? And really want to avoid having to build different/new code bases…
Read MoreRecently my Irish friend living in Australia Sean Twomey asked me how I managed to get AutoCAD 2.18 to run on modern hardware. I told him all you needed was to create a virtual machine and then create a virtual disk smaller than 10Mb because in 1985 apparently…
Read MoreThings are changing in many of the Autodesk Beta programs as many transition to new development cycles and technologies to continually improve the product and participant experience and move to year around customer feedback cycles. Last week I sat in on an call with several customer bloggers while…
Read MoreIf you are looking for a fun way to learn the basics of AutoCAD, then this free online document is perfect for you. Learning any professional CAD application can be challenging so Autodesk has created a great deal of learning resources including this guide developed in the past…
Read MoreHere is a very handy change to AutoCAD 2016 made after customers requested the functionality to change properties of Layers in an AutoCAD XREF. When the AutoCAD System Variable XREFOVERRIDE is set to 1, you can change the Color, Linetype, Linewidth, Transparency and Plot Style of objects in…
Read MoreOn this Throwback Thursday I share with you a scan I just did of one of the most important floppy disks in Autodesk’s over 30 years of history besides the original AutoCAD 1.0 floppy disks that I also have, This floppy contains the demo drawing files shown at…
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